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One of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels features a thief being deliberately put in charge of the Royal Mint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Money



A few years ago, it was discovered that the head of the Royal Coin Cabinet of Sweden, a museum with one of the world's largest coin collections worth almost $3 billion USD, had been stealing and selling historical coins worth a fortune. Kind of the opposite, really.

There's a three part documentary series here (Swedish): https://www.svtplay.se/guldfeber-stolderna-pa-kungliga-myntk...




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